Summer is the season of fresh vegetables and herbs, so you definitely need to use this period with maximum benefit for the body. Summer vegetables are a source of vitamins and minerals necessary for the normal functioning of the human body.
How to cook delicious summer salad?
- Choose the right ingredients
It's no secret that the taste of the finished dish directly depends on the quality and taste characteristics of each individual ingredient. Therefore, it is important to carefully select the ingredients for a summer vegetable salad and carefully ensure that they are sufficiently ripe, but not spoiled.
- Add greens
There is a large list of tasty and healthy greens that will add piquancy to your dish and make the taste of the salad richer. Green onions, parsley and dill go best with vegetables. In addition to them, you can add cilantro, arugula, celery, mint or spinach to the dish. Such a variety of greens allows everyone to choose their favorite ingredient.
- Prepare a delicious dressing
The taste characteristics of the finished dish largely depend on the dressing for summer salads. Sour cream is often used to quickly dress simple and tasty summer salads. For a richer taste, you can add a little garlic to it.
It is advisable to prepare summer salad recipes without mayonnaise, as they will be even healthier without this ingredient. You can also season the dish with soy sauce or balsamic vinegar. In addition, you can experiment and try to create your own unique dressing recipe by simply mixing different ingredients. For example, it turns out delicious if you combine lemon juice, French mustard and olive oil in one dish.
- Add cheese, meat or seafood
Recipes for summer salads made from simple ingredients do not have to be limited to vegetables and herbs. For a richer flavor, you can customize them with your favorite type of cheese. For example, grated parmesan or even regular hard parmesan would be appropriate. In addition, feta and cheese go well with vegetables.
As for meat, summer salads with chicken are the most popular, as they are tasty and filling. And if you want to please your loved one with a romantic dinner and prepare a more original and unusual dish, look for step-by-step recipes for summer salads with seafood.
- Serve the prepared salad immediately
Simple and tasty quick summer salads cannot stand for too long, as they quickly lose their taste and presentable appearance. Therefore, season them just before serving.
Every upcoming holiday puts any hostess into confusion: what dishes to serve, how to surprise and delight guests? Unfortunately, such traditional and everyday dishes as jellied meat, herring under a fur coat, Olivier salad, vinaigrette and Mimosa salad are no longer relevant. Today, creativity and the combination of incongruous things are in fashion.
The prevailing female stereotype that it is impossible to prepare beautiful holiday dishes from vegetables is wrong. And we will try to prove this in our culinary article. Today we will talk about how to prepare unusual summer salads for the holiday table, and also provide some useful tips regarding decoration and decoration. So, let's start cooking!
Salad “Multi-colored assorted”
What should you buy for the dish? This:
- multi-colored bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
- large ripe tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- half an onion;
- fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- baguette or loaf - 4 slices;
- frying oil;
- fresh basil - a bunch;
- salt.
For the sauce:
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- lemon juice (vinegar 9%) - 50 ml;
- mild mustard - 1 tsp;
- oil - 40 ml;
- salt, ground black pepper.
Today, many housewives prefer to make summer salads for the holiday table without mayonnaise. And this is absolutely correct. After all, there is no benefit from this product, which contains a huge amount of substances harmful to the body.
So, let's start preparing our salad by cutting a baguette or loaf. The pieces should not be very large. Heat up the frying pan, grease it with oil and throw our bread into it. Fry until the product acquires a beautiful golden hue.
Wash the vegetables thoroughly, peel and cut into small cubes. We tear the basil with our hands. Cut the onion into half rings.
It's time to start refueling. If you are preparing summer salads for the holiday table, then in this situation you cannot do without a tasty and aromatic sauce. So, finely chop the garlic and mix it with the rest of the ingredients for the dressing. Add the cooled crackers to the vegetables and add a little salt. Pour over the dressing. Mix everything thoroughly and serve. Enjoy your meal!
Cheese salad with vegetables
Many vegetable summer salads for the holiday table without mayonnaise contain cheese. This one is no exception. The only point is that the cheese used is not hard, but brine (feta, feta cheese, etc.).
So, what products should we purchase to prepare the salad:
- Chinese cabbage leaves - 6-7 pcs.;
- multi-colored bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
- large ripe tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- feta (cheese cheese, sirtaki) - 250 g;
- hard cheese for sprinkling.
For the sauce you need:
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- olive oil - 50 ml;
- spicy mustard - 1 tsp;
- salt.
Let's start cooking
Summer salads for the holiday table (recipes with photos are given in our article) should always begin with thoroughly washing the vegetables. So, take the most beautiful salad bowl and lay out the leaves of Chinese cabbage. Next comes the bell pepper, cut into strips.
Mash the feta with a fork and mix with the olives cut into rings. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes and place on top of the pepper. The design is completed with feta and olives.
For the dressing, finely chop the garlic and add mustard, salt and oil to it. Mix thoroughly. Pour the prepared sauce over our dish. Now you can serve it to your guests. As you can see, summer salads for the holiday table are prepared quickly and easily. Enjoy your meal!
Salad with blackberries and cucumbers
What is needed for the dish? The ingredients are:
- fresh cucumbers - 7 pcs.;
- blackberries - 4 tbsp. l.;
- basil, mint;
- peeled unsalted pistachios - 4 tbsp. l.;
- full-fat yogurt - 4 tbsp. l.;
- fresh thyme - 2-3 sprigs;
- narsharab sauce - 5 ml;
- sea salt, black pepper.
Preparing a salad with blackberries and cucumbers
Throw the pistachios into the pan and fry them, stirring constantly. Cut off the ends of the cucumbers, place them on a cutting board, pound them with a rolling pin (this will make them juicier) and chop them finely. Place the cucumbers in a salad bowl, add salt and pepper. Season with yoghurt and sauce and mix thoroughly. Place washed blackberries on top and sprinkle with torn mint, basil, and thyme. We finish with pistachios. That's all, our salad with cucumbers and blackberries is ready! Enjoy your meal!
Light salad with strawberries and chicken
Light summer salads for the holiday table with berries will conquer any gourmet. Our dish in this case is no exception.
So, for cooking we will need:
- ripe sweet strawberries - 8 pcs.;
- chicken fillet - 300 g;
- green onions - a bunch;
- walnuts - 50 g;
- goat cheese (optionally feta, feta cheese) - 150 g;
- salad - bunch;
- balsamic vinegar - 100 ml;
- salt pepper.
Preparing the salad
Let's start with the chicken fillet. It should be peppered, salted, poured with 50 ml of balsamic vinegar and placed in a marinade container (for 1-2 hours).
In the meantime, you can do other work. We clean the nuts and grind them using a mortar. Wash the strawberries, tear off the stems and cut into 4 parts. Mash the cheese with a fork. Finely chop the green onions.
When our fillet is marinated, cut it into small cubes and fry in a frying pan greased with oil until cooked. To prevent excess oil from spoiling the taste of our dish, place the chicken pieces on paper towels.
Take a salad bowl and place washed, dried and torn lettuce leaves on it. In a separate container, mix all the ingredients together with the cooled chicken cubes. Place the mixture on top of the lettuce leaves and pour in the remaining balsamic vinegar. That's it, our dish is ready! Try preparing fresh summer salads for the holiday table with the addition of various berries, and you will see that they are compatible with any product. Enjoy your meal!
Peperonata salad
Summer salads for the holiday table, recipes for which are presented in large quantities in our article, can also be prepared using baked vegetables. Try making a salad with the beautiful name “Peperonata”, and you will be convinced of the amazing taste and extraordinary aroma of this dish.
So, here are the products we need for this salad:
- bell pepper of different colors - 3 pcs.;
- young eggplant - 1 pc.;
- feta cheese or cheese - 250 g;
- pine nuts - 1.5 tbsp. l.;
- cilantro - 1 bunch;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- olive oil - 120 ml;
- green salad leaves - 5 pcs.;
- salt pepper.
Cooking according to recipe
Place the eggplant and pepper in the oven on a greased baking sheet. There is no need to peel vegetables so as not to lose the original taste and aroma of these products. When the peppers and eggplants are completely cooked, remove them from the oven and let cool. In the meantime, let's move on to other products.
This salad recipe includes pesto sauce. So, chop the cilantro and put it in a blender bowl along with nuts and garlic. Pour in olive oil and add a pinch of salt. Grind thoroughly for 30 seconds.
Peel the baked vegetables and cut them into large pieces. Take a salad bowl, lay out washed, dried and coarsely torn lettuce leaves, and place medium-cut pieces of feta cheese on top. In a separate container, mix the baked vegetables and pesto sauce. Place the mixture in a salad bowl, let it brew for 15 minutes and serve. As you can see, the recipes for festive summer salads are simple, and the benefits from them are simply enormous. Enjoy your meal!
"Watermelon Dream"
And again a combination of the incompatible - watermelon and radish. Don't be afraid of this tandem. In this case, everything is consistent - taste, aroma, and design.
Required ingredients:
- multi-colored bell peppers - 3 pcs.;
- radishes - 6 pcs.;
- large ripe tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- chopped watermelon pulp - 1.5 cups;
- fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- feta - 200 g.
For the sauce you need:
- olive oil - 60 ml;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- mint - a bunch;
- oregano, salt, pepper.
Cooking “Watermelon Dream”
We wash and peel the vegetables. Cut peppers, radishes, tomatoes and cucumbers into strips. Finely chop the mint, mix with lemon juice, oil, oregano, salt and pepper. Gently mix watermelon cubes with chopped feta cheese and vegetables, pour over the prepared dressing. It is worth noting that summer salads and holiday appetizers using watermelon pulp are served immediately after preparation. Enjoy your meal!
Salad “From Seville”
If you like unusual summer vegetable salads, you can serve the “From Seville” salad on your holiday table. This original and exotic dish will delight all guests without exception.
So, what do we need for this salad?
- colored bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
- orange - 1 large;
- green salad - 1 bunch;
- green onions - half a bunch;
- feta cheese;
- oil for refueling;
- salt pepper.
Cooking according to recipe
To begin, rinse the vegetables and fruits under running water. Peel the pepper and cut into strips. Peel the orange and remove the seeds. Cut the fruit into cubes. Let's do the same with cheese. Take a salad bowl and place coarsely torn lettuce, orange, feta cheese, sliced olives, and finely chopped green onions on top. Season the dish with oil, a little salt and pepper. That’s it, the salad “From Seville” is ready. Bon appetit!
Salad with pepper and apple
If you like summer salads without mayonnaise, then this dish is what you need.
- multi-colored bell pepper - 4 pcs.;
- sweet multi-colored apples - 4 pcs.;
- sour cream or unsweetened yogurt - 100 ml;
- green onions - a bunch;
- green and red lettuce leaves - 5 pcs.;
- sugar and salt.
Cooking
We thoroughly wash the vegetables, peel and cut into strips. We tear the lettuce leaves with our hands and put them in a salad bowl, put apples and peppers there too. Season with sour cream, salt, sugar, mix and sprinkle finely chopped green onions on top. If for some reason you do not want to season the dish with sour cream, then make a summer salad with butter. This dish should be served on the festive table immediately after preparation. Enjoy your meal!
Baked trout and vegetable salad
We have already described vegetable summer salads for the holiday table (with photos), now we can discuss recipes for dishes with the addition of fish. They are perfect for a special occasion.
So, what do we need for the salad:
- trout fillet - 250 g;
- fresh green peas - 250 g;
- multi-colored bell pepper - 2 pcs.;
- fresh large cucumber;
- new potatoes (small tubers) - 10 pcs.;
- quail eggs - 5 pcs.;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- red and green lettuce leaves - 5 pcs.
For refueling:
- unflavored olive oil - 80 ml;
- mustard - 1 tsp;
- lemon juice - 30 ml;
- chicken egg yolk;
- salt pepper.
Prepare the salad according to the recipe
First you need to take care of the fish. Season with salt, pepper and a few drops of lemon juice. Let's turn on the oven. Place the trout on greased baking sheets and bake for 15 minutes. Wash the potatoes thoroughly under running water, dry them and send them to the trout. After the specified time has passed, remove the fish and leave the potatoes to bake until done.
In the meantime, let's cook the peas. A few minutes will be enough. Wash the cucumber and pepper, peel and cut into strips. Onion - in half rings. Boil the quail eggs and place them in cold water.
Cut the cooled trout into cubes. Place clean and dried lettuce leaves in a salad bowl. In a separate container, mix the fish with the cooled baked potatoes and vegetables.
Now let's make the sauce. To make it, mix mashed yolk, butter, lemon juice, mustard, salt and pepper. Season the fish with vegetables with the resulting sauce and mix. Place the salad on top of the torn lettuce leaves. Take the eggs out of the water, peel them and cut them into two parts. Place them on top of the dish. Bon appetit!
Caprese with figs
If you like summer salads without mayonnaise, then you will really like caprese made in this version. It combines everything: both taste and color solutions. So, we need:
- ripe tomatoes (you can take different colors) - 3 pcs.;
- figs - 1 large or 2 medium fruits;
- dry-cured ham - 100 g;
- mozzarella - 150 gr.;
- balsamic - 1 tsp;
- unflavored olive oil - 40 ml;
- Provençal herbs - a pinch;
- salt, preferably sea salt - a pinch;
- pepper mixture;
- basil - 3 sprigs.
Cooking caprese with figs
Cut the figs, tomatoes and mozzarella into thin equal slices. We do the same with ham. Place the ingredients in rows on a flat salad bowl (this is the highlight of caprese). Drizzle the salad with oil, sprinkle with herbs, salt and pepper. Decorate with basil sprigs. Enjoy your meal!
Classic Greek salad
This wonderful dish will decorate any holiday table.
To prepare it you should purchase the following products:
- fresh cucumbers - 5 pcs.;
- pitted olives - half a jar;
- green salad leaves - a bunch;
- pitted olives - half a jar;
- red onions - 3 pcs.;
- unflavored olive oil - 170 ml;
- tomatoes - 7 pcs.;
- feta or cheese - 250 g;
- white wine vinegar - 3 tbsp. l.;
- cilantro - a bunch;
- oregano.
For the sauce
- garlic - two cloves;
- lemon juice - 10 ml;
- unflavored olive oil - 200 ml;
- sweet mustard - 2 tsp;
- liquid honey - 10 ml;
- balsamic vinegar - 10 ml;
- basil leaves;
- salt pepper.
Cooking according to the recipe
Wash the onion, peel and thinly cut into half rings. Place our vegetable in a separate bowl, add oregano, wine vinegar and olive oil. Leave the onion to marinate for 1 hour. In the meantime, let's prepare the salad dressing. Peel the garlic and finely chop it. Wash the basil, cut it and mix with garlic. In a separate container, mix vinegar, oil, honey, mustard and lemon juice. Add garlic and basil there. Season with pepper and salt. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.
We wash and cut the tomatoes and cucumbers (cucumbers into slices, tomatoes into slices). Place the vegetables in a bowl and add pickled onions, black olives, and olives.
Cut the feta into large cubes and place it in our dish. Pour the sauce over the salad and decorate with herbs if desired. Mix. Enjoy your meal!
Salad appetizer with cracker
This dish tastes simply amazing. And the main thing is that you can diversify it according to your preferences. So what do we need:
- rice - half a glass;
- rice vinegar - one teaspoon;
- cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- crackers - 15 pcs.;
- greenery;
- processed cheese - 2 pcs.;
- salt.
Cooking
It is worth noting that summer salads for the holiday table with crackers are prepared using salted cookies. In this case, we will need a square or round shaped saltine cracker.
So, cook the rice in salted water. When it is cooked, add the specified amount of vinegar to it so that the rice does not spread when forming the dish. Grate the cheese and mix it with rice. Roll into small balls and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. Place the formed rice circles on the crackers, pressing down lightly. Place thinly sliced cucumber slices on top. It turns out very original and beautiful. Bon appetit!
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It only takes a couple of minutes to prepare this salad. It turns out tasty, beautiful, and most importantly - healthy. Using a sharp knife or a slicer, first cut...
Prepare a delicious and healthy salad of radishes and green salad. These vegetables are the first to appear in the spring and always delight with their availability and affordable price. The salad itself is prepared in just a few minutes...
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- To prepare salads, the Sami use various products - fresh and boiled vegetables, meat, fish, and some fruits. As a rule, almost any salad includes greens - green onions, dill, parsley, celery.
- To ensure that the taste and appearance of the salads are at their best, it is best to cut and mix the ingredients, as well as dress the salads before serving. A rare exception is salads dressed with mayonnaise or sour cream, for example, the well-known and beloved Olivier salad. It is advisable to prepare these salads in advance and let them brew for a while so that the flavors of the ingredients blend.
- To ensure that the raw vegetables from which you plan to prepare the salad do not lose vitamin C when exposed to oxygen, after cutting the vegetables, sprinkle them with lemon juice or 5% vinegar.
- Radish salad gets a piquant taste if you add some ground walnuts to it.
- Mayonnaise in salads can be replaced with the following dressing: add the mashed yolk of one boiled egg and a teaspoon of mild mustard, salt and spices to taste to the sour cream.
- Frozen tomatoes and lettuce peppers intended for salads should not be thawed in plastic packaging; they should be transferred to enamel or earthenware dishes to preserve the released juice.
- If you need to boil vegetables for a salad, then boil them in salted water. The exceptions are beets and carrots. It is better to undercook vegetables for salads a little rather than overcook them.
- To clean boiled vegetables better, rinse them with cold water after cooking.
- It is better to buy carrots for salads with a short root vegetable (Carotel variety). It is more juicy and aromatic. It is from these carrots that delicious carrot juice is obtained, as well as delicious salads and side dishes.
- To ensure that tomatoes lose less juice when cutting, cut the tomatoes with a sharp knife. A bread knife or the sharpest ceramic knives are ideal for this purpose.
- To prevent onions from becoming bitter, they are first cut into noodles and then soaked in cold water for 10-15 minutes.
- To completely get rid of bitterness, pour boiling water over chopped onions for 10 minutes.
- We wash any greens (spinach, all kinds of salads, parsley, sorrel, dill and parsley...) in plenty of water so that the greens float. Place the washed greens in a colander to drain all the water.
- Since wet green onions spoil very quickly, they should be stored unwashed.
- An ordinary radish salad turns into a special dish with a subtle piquant taste if you add a handful of crushed walnuts to it.
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Holiday salads are a special topic of conversation. Personally, I can spend hours discussing salad recipes for the holiday table with my girlfriends on the Internet and on the phone, and I always write down recipes for delicious holiday salads when visiting. Salads for the festive table are a separate philosophy for every housewife, because salad is the first thing served on the table, and it is salads that set the tone for the entire feast.
As the wise proverb says: “A dull pencil is better than the sharpest memory,” so I decided to collect all my favorite and proven recipes for holiday salads in one place.
To open the page before the holidays - and all the salads for the holiday table in one place, all that remains is to choose the appropriate salad and send your husband to the supermarket for groceries. Friends, I really hope that you will definitely like my salads for the holiday table!
Salad in heaps "Jumble"
The “Jumble” salad is prepared in heaps very quickly, the ingredients are simple and accessible, and the original design allows you to serve the salad in heaps on a flat dish on a festive table. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.
Salad with squid, egg and cucumber
The recipe for salad with squid, egg and cucumber is one of my favorites. It is easy and quick to prepare; no special ingredients or culinary skills are required. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.
Salad with crab sticks and carrots
I would like to present to your attention a very tasty salad with crab sticks and carrots. A friend shared his recipe with me when I once complained to her that I couldn’t find some new interesting salad - one that was easy to prepare, looked appetizing, and turned out tasty and tender. How to cook, see.
Salad “Cod liver under a fur coat”
The prepared cod liver salad turns out to be especially tender. All my friends have long copied this recipe into their cookbooks and are sure to prepare it for the holiday table. I hope you will also enjoy the delicious canned cod liver salad. You can see how to prepare the salad “Cod liver under a fur coat”
Salad with prunes and chicken “Venice”
I prepare a very tasty salad with chicken and prunes for almost all family holidays. It turns out satisfying, with a pleasant piquant note, which is given to the dish by prunes and fried champignons. The classic combination of boiled chicken fillet, cheese and mushrooms is complemented by fresh cucumber, making the salad juicy and fresh. See recipe with photo.
A very tasty salad for the holiday table with pancakes, Korean carrots, Chinese cabbage, ham and chicken. Your guests will be delighted! See the recipe with step-by-step photos.
Delicious salad with canned beans and croutons
Well, a very tasty salad with canned beans, croutons, sausage and fresh cucumber! All the ingredients work well together, and the mayonnaise dressing with garlic makes this salad a favorite of all guests. Recipe with photo.
Salad with smoked chicken “Mosaic”
A delicious salad with smoked chicken, cheese and fresh vegetables will take a special place on your holiday table. See the recipe with step-by-step photos.
Layered salad with sardine
You can see how to prepare a very tasty and simple puff salad with sardines.
Chicken breast salad “Air”
This salad is really very tasty, despite the fact that it is prepared easily and quickly and from quite affordable ingredients. As a housewife, I also like this salad with chicken breast - a simple recipe, and the result is very appetizing and interesting, quite suitable for a regular lunch-dinner, and for a holiday table. Look at the recipe with photos.
Salad with crab sticks and tomatoes
Who wants a simple and quick recipe for a delicious, but at the same time very affordable salad made from the most common ingredients? I have just such a salad with crab sticks and tomatoes. It really turns out very tasty, bright and appetizing. Recipe .
Salad with chicken and pineapple “Spicy”
You can see the recipe for “Spicy” chicken and pineapple salad.
You can see how to prepare the “Obsession” salad
If you are looking for a simple but tasty salad for the holiday table, then I think you will like this recipe with the funny name “Mushrooms under a fur coat.” There is no need to draw an analogy with the famous salad “Herring under a fur coat” - there will be no beets and herring in this recipe. But there will be mushrooms and hard cheese, pickles and green onions: this combination turns out to be very successful and tasty, and the appetizer is filling. See the recipe with step-by-step photos
Salad with chicken and prunes “Birthday Boy”
You can see how to prepare a salad with prunes and chicken “Birthday Boy”
If you are looking for a good and simple salad recipe for the holiday table, “Kucheryashka” will be a great option. I like this salad with chicken and beets because it’s easy to prepare; just boil the beets and chicken fillet in advance, and then all you have to do is chop the ingredients and lay them out in layers. I wrote how to prepare a salad with beets and cheese “Kucheryashka”.
Red Sea salad with tomatoes, sweet peppers, cheese and crab sticks. This combination of ingredients turns out to be very successful, so you will definitely like the taste of this dish. And the salad is prepared simply and quickly, and it also looks bright and appetizing... See the recipe with step-by-step photos
I suggest you try to prepare a very simple and tasty salad with sprats and croutons, which all my guests have already fallen in love with. Despite the fact that the salad does not contain fresh vegetables, this does not “spoil the picture” at all. Mushrooms go well with sprats and crackers, and for those who like something spicy, you can add garlic! You can see how to prepare a salad with sprats and croutons .
Salad with croutons and ham “Carmen”
A very tasty and original salad with croutons, chicken and ham with adjika and mayonnaise dressing. Your guests will be satisfied. Let's see how to prepare the salad
Salad with mushrooms, chicken and nuts “Leshy”
Ingredients:
- 1 PC. boiled chicken breast,
- 400 g champignons,
- 2 pcs. Luke,
- 3 pcs. boiled eggs,
- 100 g hard cheese,
- 0.5 tbsp ground walnuts,
- mayonnaise.
Preparation:
Chop the champignons, chop the onion, and fry them separately.
Cut the breast into cubes, boil the eggs, grate on a coarse grater, grate the cheese on a coarse grater, add nuts, season with mayonnaise, stir.
Place a glass or bottle in the center on a flat dish, place our salad and press it down a little. Then very carefully remove the glass and decorate.
We decorate our salad with herbs and olive flowers.
Salad with squid, mushrooms and nuts “Kyiv”
How to prepare Kyiv salad, see
Salad with chicken and mushrooms “Zostolny”
Ingredients:
- boiled eggs 5 pcs
- smoked chicken breast 200g
- pickled mushrooms 200g
- cheese 100-150g
- greens for decoration
- mayonnaise or sour cream.
Preparation:
Separate the whites from the yolks. Grate separately.
Finely chop the meat and mushrooms.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Season the meat with mayonnaise.
Lay out in layers from bottom to top: meat, mushrooms, mayonnaise, proteins, mayonnaise, cheese, mayonnaise. yolks. Decorate with greens.
Salad with tomatoes and croutons “Astra”
You can see the recipe for Astra salad.
Finger-licking salad
Ingredients:
- 300 g cabbage
- 200 g boiled meat (pork or beef)
- 3 small beets
- 2 carrots
- 1 medium onion
- 4-5 potatoes
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tomatoes
- hard cheese
- mayonnaise
- soy sauce
- vegetable oil
Preparation:
Boil carrots (one), beets and meat and cut into strips separately. Cut the potatoes into strips, then fry (make French fries). Cabbage and cucumber - in strips.
1st layer - cabbage (salt, squeeze lightly and pepper, mayonnaise);
2 — carrots (1 fresh + 1 boiled, soy sauce and a little mayonnaise);
3 - beets + garlic and mayonnaise;
4 - meat + mayonnaise;
5 - finely chopped onion;
6 - potatoes + mayonnaise.
Place sliced tomatoes on top, salt them, put a little mayonnaise, sprinkle with grated cheese and garnish with herbs.
Salad with cheese, pineapple and garlic
Women especially like a spicy salad with cheese, pineapple and garlic, because it turns out incredibly tasty and at the same time inexpensive. Another advantage of this recipe is that to prepare it you do not need to boil vegetables or eggs in advance, grind all the ingredients for a long time and then lay them out in layers. Everything is very simple. Recipe with photo.
Salad with smoked chicken and fresh vegetables “Versai”
You can see how to prepare Versai salad
Salad with crab sticks and cheese “Tender”
The salad is really very tender and airy. It's quick and easy to prepare. A great budget salad option for the holidays!
Ingredients:
- 200 g crab sticks
- 200 g cheese (not spicy varieties)
- 6 boiled eggs
- 30 g butter
- mayonnaise
Preparation:
We arrange the salad in layers.
The first layer is to grate frozen crab sticks on a coarse grater and coat with mayonnaise.
The next layer is grated cheese, the next is grated egg white, then grate the yolk on a fine grater. And grate 30 grams of butter on top.
Coat each layer with mayonnaise. Leave to infuse.
See the recipe with step-by-step photos.
Salad with croutons and red fish “Peak of Bliss”
The salad is prepared very quickly and simply, but incredibly tasty.
Dedicated to all red fish lovers!
Ingredients:
- 200 g salted red fish (I used trout)
- a small head of Chinese cabbage
- 100 g white(!!!) crackers (Klinskie were recommended, but I couldn’t find them)
- mayonnaise.
Preparation:
Cut the fish into small strips, chop the cabbage, and mix.
Add mayonnaise, mix and add crackers.
Mix again and you are ready to eat. You can let the salad sit for about ten minutes and the croutons will soften slightly. Delicious both ways!
Salad with smoked ham “To Hurray!”
A very original salad with an amazing composition. All ingredients go well together. If you don't like celery, replace it with cucumber.
Ingredients:
- Smoked ham pcs.
- Celery (stems) 100 gr.
- Tomato 1 pc.
- Boiled eggs 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise 2 tablespoons
- Sour cream 1 tbsp.
- A little bit of garlic.
Preparation:
Cut chicken, celery, tomato and eggs into cubes + sauce (mayonnaise + sour cream + garlic).
Bon appetit!
Salad with canned mackerel
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Summer recipes - the best recipes for seasonal dishes and drinks that will add variety to your menu. These are, first of all, healthy dishes from vegetables, fruits, herbs, and berries.In the heat, the body requires the consumption of large amounts of vitamins, preferably not synthetic, but real, in their natural form. That is why during the warm season it is advisable not to miss this opportunity and switch to vitamin-rich, juicy and light dishes. And numerous recipes for summer dishes will help us with this, which can be found in large quantities on Povarenka, for every taste and every desire. So what kind of summer dishes do many modern housewives usually prepare?
Summer soups
Of course, this is primarily such as okroshka, beetroot soup, kholodnik, gazpacho and many others. In the summer heat, such first courses are an excellent alternative to hot soups, pickles, borscht and solyanka.
The advantage of summer cold first courses is that the ingredients in them are mostly fresh, which means they have retained all their vitamins. Such dishes cool down a hot body well, but summer soups contain very few calories, which means that with their help you will not gain excess weight - just a godsend for the summer!
Salads and snacks for the summer table
What summer recipes are complete without salads and appetizers made from vegetables and herbs? You should definitely take note of such recipes and try not to spend a single summer day without them.
In summer, it would be correct to season vegetables and herbs not with mayonnaise, but with more vitamin-rich and healthy salad sauces, for example, vegetable oil with lemon juice, or natural yogurt, or mustard dressing.
What's summer without barbecue?
We associate summer not only with vegetables and berries grown at our dacha, but also with picnics, trips into nature, as well as kebabs and barbecues, which are the main signature dishes on the menu for such out-of-town trips.
Kebabs can be prepared not only by craftsmen, but also by those who take into account our advice on how to properly marinate them, grill them over coals, serve them beautifully, and what sauce to prepare for them. Don’t forget to serve kebabs and barbecue dishes with summer snacks accompanied by beer and meat cooked over the fire.
For dessert...
As you can see, recipes for the summer amaze with their variety. Even the dessert dishes for the summer menu are special - rich in vitamins and refreshing. Summer desserts include sweet dishes such as homemade ice cream, jellies, mousses, puddings, dessert salads of fruits and berries, and thick smoothies with ice.
Drinks on the summer menu
In the summer, we take out a juicer from pantries and far corners and intensively squeeze juices from fresh vegetables, berries, herbs and fruits of the summer season. We also prepare cool compotes, homemade lemonades, and non-alcoholic drinks as drinks so that your thirst will subside and the drink will refresh you in the summer heat.
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Create a summer menu and prepare summer dishes with Cook's recipes, and your summer will be the most delicious, most vitamin-packed, most joyful time of the year!